This is the second 6 monthly Progress Report on the 3 year ADATS Consortium
programme to build the Coolie Sangha in north Kolar district. Unlike the first
one, which was an Activity Report, this document contains far more critical
reflections and self-suggestions for improving our intervention. Most such
contemplation are found interspersed in the main body of the document. We have
used 93 actual village experiences to illustrate points which would otherwise
need voluminous explanations.

Like the previous time, all the Field and Executive Staff at each Extension
compiled their own reports. This exercise took 5 days from 20-25 March 1996.
In the final week of the fiscal year, ADATS core group compiled the 4 reports
and elucidated points for comment, criticism and reflection. The 1st draft was
shared with all our Staff on 1 April 1996. Since then the document has gone
through half a dozen more drafts before finally being accepted by one and all
on 8 April 1996 . The past 3 weeks have therefore been an intense period of
introspection and self evaluation. We are certain that this exercise will
benefit us by resulting in a more honed and sensitive intervention in the
coming 6 months.

We have continued to use the terms “erstwhile EZE Area” to mean CSUs which
are a little more than 1 year old, “erstwhile NOVIB Area” to mean CSUs which
are now 3-4 years old and mostly in the 2nd phase of Coolie Sangha
Formalisation, and “erstwhile ICCO Area” to mean CSUs which are about 7 years
old, in the 3rd and final phase of Coolie Sangha Consolidation.